Recent content by Robert Donnell

Now you have A and B where would C be? You can always do a twist at the end where the end is not where you thought it would end like having the least likely thing happen. The Butler did it!

Okay Princess I understand exactly what your issues are, I wrote my first novel without any planning or prewriting, the book was awful, My next I tried to do the 100% pre planning thing, The second book was never finished. So what was the right answer? Prewriting free hand can help figure...

There is a free book from Kindle that covers all of that.

Well I am 25% into the work and it will be mighty short, but that is okay. My philosophy is to start at the beginning go all the way through to the end, then stop however long or short that may be.

Well I am already up to page 26 so it already is too unwealdy for my planned format I may do: A. an intro B. history C. modern D. how to E. philosphy

I was researching something for a Sci-Fi thriller chapter and realized that I had enough to actually write a book on the subject. My posts on the subject had quickly gained 4200 hits on a forum, this tells me that there is an interest in the subject among the general population. My problem...

Connect the dots, I like that!

I am still in the pre-writing stage. Somewhere in the next few days I will start the foundation, I need some idea what it is to look like before I pour the foundation.

Gradually mostly heck broke lose.

Suddenly all hell broke loose! I now have an opening for my new book!

Oh I agree with you, as far as the politics in writing go we saw in real life WWII that fuel and supplies were diverted from Patton to Montgomery for political reasons but in books about say King Author you rarely see this discussed. Lancelot getting the good horses but Sir Perceval just gets...

The gizmo was all squares and circles not to complement each other but apparently because the designers were in a hurry. The material was an uninteresting shade of semi-gloss black because the injection molding subcontractor had run out of beige. The screen was at an awkward height as a cost...

I agree with penpilot, it is the journey not the destination. I become a better writer along the way.

Well I had my first English class (Composition I) That I had been to in years last night. I had fun by the way. I spoke to my instructor and she was a cookie cutter type of writer. She suggested establishing a format and filling in the blanks. Yeah I bet reading her books will really keep...

Wow thanks BWFoster78! Okay you have pointed me in one direction. Let me repeat back what I think you are saying: You have one IDEA per book, write that down. Write down the Beginning, the Middle and the End. Where the story begins, where it should be mid-book and how it should look at...